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| The Antenna Elmer By AC3L | Here you can design a variety of simple antennas and matching devices on line, with no need for maths. |
| Jim's Notebooks | Some very interesting antenna notes, articles and diagrams, including information on Ground Problems, Baliuns, Decibels, and a neat Antenna Trim Chart. |
| Antenna Basics | Scott's Pages teach you a lot about antenna basics, and include some designs as well. |
| ANTENNA TOPICS From G3YCC | Lots of antenna projects to choose from here - something for everybody. Includes some novel ideas, and info on the Autek and MFJ259 Antenna Analysers. |
| L. B. Cebik, W4RNL | Practical Antenna Notes, loaded with ideas on all aspects of antennas, lots of technical theory and diagrams. |
| Hard Core DX | Although this site is primarily intended for Short Wave Listeners, you will find a mine of information on many different designs of wire antennas, loops, hidden, specials, etc. - this is a first class resource and well worth a visit. |
| AA3PX's Beverage Page | Text and diagrams about how to build a Beverage receiving antenna. |
| KB1GW's Beverage Page | There's plenty of information here on all types of this popular receiving antenna. |
| N3RR's Beverage Page | A practical page, of text and pictures that tell how various Beverage antennas were tried and perfected, replacing the EWE antennas. |
| W8JI's Antenna Articles | Some useful articles on Vertical Arrays, Beverages, Phased Beverages, and Receiving Antenna Basics. |
| Antenna Discussions | Lots Of Antenna Info From the Antenna-Reflector Archives. |
| W0RPK's Wire LPDA | An interesting design for a wire Log Periodic Dipole Array, that requires only one main support mast. |
| Antenna Software | A large collection of antenna-design software and associated articles can be found here. |
| Mike Banz, AA3RL | Antenna Height? How High Should My Dipole Be? This page explains everything, with some great diagrams too. |
| Coax Stubs | Bob, AK6R, has put together a very useful chart to help you construct stubs for an SO2R installation. It also explains the results when using different ones at once. |
| Antenna Projects From The YCCC | The Yankee Clipper Contest Club presents a series of articles on constructing a Double-L For 80/160, a Two Wire Beverage, a Poor Man's 160 Meter 4-Square, using a 4 square Vertical Phased Array to improve your 80 and 160 meter signal, and others. |
| Antenna Freeware | G4FGQ presents a great page of antenna add-on software, including antenna-match design, loops, and much much more. |
| Rotatable Flag Antennas | W7IUV shows you how to make a this rotatable receiving antenna. Drawings and photos, plus a schematic of the pre-amp. |
| Flags and Pennant Antennas | K3KY presents a compendium of information about these antennas. Links to all you need to know. |
| K1TTT Technical Notes | Beverages, Baluns and much much more from one of the top US contest stations. |
| KB1SG | The famous Rhombic Antenna Home Page - learn more about these very special antennas. |
| Joby's Rhombic Ranch | The Rhombic Ranch, with useful information for any Rhombic Want-To-Be. |
| VE3GK's Big Homebrew Site | 80M Rotating 2 element Quad, 7Element 20M Yagi 63ft Boom, HomeBrew HF Amplifier, The Stacked Array. |
| W7CY's CapYagi | Need a better antenna for 80m ? Here's an interesting idea for a shortened 2-element beam that weighs just 250 lb. |
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| VE3GK | Another article about stacking yagis after actually doing it! Good photos,too. |
| 6Y2A's Vertical Notes | Find out about verticals from an experienced contester. Topics include Choice, Testing, Installation, Arrays, and Radials. |
| ON4CEQ | An excellent introduction by ON4CEQ to the design and construction of Magnetic Loops for transmitting or receiving. Find out how to make your own variable capacitors too. |
| KC2TX | 160M/80M Coaxial Receiving Loops that you can build or buy. |
| G3PTO | A simple 160 metre "L" Antenna from G3PTO. |
| Brian Smith | A 160 metre 3/8th Wave Antenna with tuner, by Brian Smith. |
| Kites and Aerials | G3CWI shows us how to use parafoil kites to support those aerials you've only dreamed of. Topband diamond loop, anybody ?! |
| EI7BA's Quads | Check out this great site with all the information, tables, and photos you need to make your own quad. He has also added details for a homebrew Hex-Beam, that can be very useful for the smaller garden, or for the lower bands. |
| JA2FUP's Quads | Some interesting photos of Fuji's cubical quads. Look out for the little link 'Please click here' which takes you to some great engineering drawings of a tri-band 4 element quad and matching unit. |
| Scott's Quads | Great information on building your own quads, including an on-site length calculator. |
| KD6DKS Quads | Another online quad-calculator. |
| GEMQUAD | A well established range of boom-less cubical quads. |
| Cubex | Cubex make a range of Quad antennas, used by many dxers. |
| Giovannini | This super range of Quad, Yagi and Vertical antennas is a 'Must Visit' site that will interest the purchaser or home-constructor. |
| Quads from Russia | Anyone interested in quads should definitely check out this Russian website, with its superb quad photos. Although the text is in Cyrillic, its easy enough to find your way around. I used the AltaVista translation page to help me learn more. |
| Delta Loop Calculator | Here's a very neat graphical online calculator for a dual phased delta-loop. |
| Max Gain Systems | RF coaxial switches, Gin Poles, Antenna Accessories, HF quads. |
| Cushcraft | Cushcraft are well known for their range of yagis, though they are cutting their number of ham antennas these days. |
| Force 12 | A great range of antennas here - the contester's choice. |
| Hygain | The Hygain Co. has been a well known name in antennas for many years. |
| KMA Antennas | A range of log periodics antennas for the radio amateur. |
| Sommer Antennas | Some interesting multiband beams and verticals from Switzerland. |
| Titanex | This German company makes a fine range of log periodics and verticals. |
| Array Solutions | Home of the much used WX0B stackbox, and the tower sidemount. |
| Comtek Systems | The home of the 4 square array switching box - a great system for the low band DXer. |
| View a 4-Square | And if you were wondering what's actually involved in an 80m 4-square, this site has some great pictures and construction diagrams. If only all webpages were as good as this !! |
| K1FZ Transformers | A range of Beverage antenna transformers. |
| Dunestar | If you've got too many antennas, you probably need their range of filters, switches, and stacking systems. |
| Top Ten Devices | A range of antenna switching and data decoding products. |
| Vine Antennas | UK distributors of a large range of HF antennas and accessories. They even make their own range of yagis. |
| Antennas Products Inc. | Although this company produces antennas for the commercial market, their website will provide the home constructor with many new ideas. I was especially interested in their range of vertical Log Peridodics. |
| Autek Research | The manufacturer of the RF1 antenna analyser. |
| MFJ | Manufactures a range of HF-UHF antenna analysers. |
| AEA Inc. | AEA HF/VHF/UHF Antenna Analysers. |